Canadian practice guideline does NOT recommend HIFU
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is legally available in Canada as a method for the treatment of prostate cancer. However, a new Canadian practice guideline states that, “HIFU cannot currently be recommended as an alternative to accepted curative treatment approaches for ...
Safer cancer treatment for patients in Singapore
Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »Doctors at the National University Hospital in Singapore, claim to have become the first in Southeast Asia to treat prostate, cervical and breast cancers using High-dose-rate (HDR) Brachytherapy. Coupled with 3-D imaging using CT scans and MRIs, the result is a ...
Surgery better than radiation, hormone treatments for localized prostate cancer
Saturday, August 7th, 2010 Posted in hormone therapy, prostatectomy, radiation therapy | 1 Comment »Researchers at University of California, San Franciscosay (UCFS) the differences among therapies were more prominent at higher levels of cancer risk. They suggest that in many cases surgery should play a greater role in treatment strategies for patients with prostate ...
New GPS-like system to track prostate cancer tumors
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »The Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute is now being offering to patients undergoing radiation therapy a new system that utilizes a precise a GPS-like system to track prostate cancer tumors. The monitoring system, called Calypso, allows radiation beams to more ...
Lack of benefit for the ADT to dose-escalated RT in treatment of prostate cancer
Monday, July 19th, 2010 Posted in hormone therapy, radiation therapy | No Comments »Over the years, several randomized trials have shown the benefit of combining androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with radiation therapy (RT) for the first- and second-line treatment of men with prostate cancer. A recent study at the William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan ...
Treatment of metastatic prostate carcinoma with radiolabeled antibody CC49
Monday, July 12th, 2010 Posted in hormone therapy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A Phase II trial related to high-affinity antibody CC49 was investigated in 15 patients with hormone-resistant metastatic prostate cancer. Acientists found no acute adverse reactions occurred, but all patients had evidence of an immune response to CC49 by 4 weeks and concluded CC49 ...
Optimum radiation dose on same day as brachytherapy implant can control prostate cancer
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »A new research undertaken at the University Hospital of Navarre concludrd ensuring the optimum radiation dose on the same day as the brachytherapy implant in prostate cancer treatment manages to control the illness in about 95% of the cases. The results ...
Better survival associated with higher doses of EBRT
Sunday, June 20th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »It has been getting increasingly clear that elevated doses of radiation to the prostate result in better prostate cancer-specific survival for men treated with first-line radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer. A recent study suggests that for patients with localized prostate cancer who ...
Radiation therapy and surgery have comparable effectiveness in patients with localized prostate cancer
Friday, June 18th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »The "right” treatment approach for men with early stage prostate cancer, often boils down to a patient’s personal choice, not a one-size-fits-all medical approach. According to an University of Cincinnati Health radiation oncologist, doctors will give advice based on the particular ...
The Center for radiation therapy of Beverly Hills offers its patients the Calypso System
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »The Center for Radiation Therapy of Beverly Hills has become one of the select facilities in the country to offer its patients the Calypso System, a prostate cancer treatment tool that enables clinicians to track tumor motion in real-time.The Calypso ...